Wow. I spent five of my formative years in Orange County (68-73). If you made me guess where that picture was taken, I would never said LA. The mountains were a rare dirty blur on the horizon in those days.

I remember days like that. Back in the early 90s at some meeting in Sandy Gallin's office on Sunset, I caught sight of a fantastic view of both the mountains to the east and the ocean to the west, all in one fell swoop. Fifteen years later, I write in to a blog and get censored a lot.

I love love love LA during wet, cold winters when the San Gabriels and San Bernadino Mountains are snowy and everything below is lush and green. A five dollar parking pass and an hour drive up Angeles Crest Highway or Baldy puts you right into the middle of it, too.

"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Federal judges on Monday tentatively ordered California to release tens of thousands of inmates, up to a third of all prisoners, in the next three years to stop dangerous overcrowding.

As many as 57,000 could be let go if the current population were cut by the maximum percentage considered by a three-judge panel. Judges said the move could be done without threatening public safety -- and might improve a public safety hazard."

As many as 57,000 could be let go if the current population were cut by the maximum percentage considered by a three-judge panel.

This is why Federal Judicial activism in the state criminal systems is so destructive. If the state of California had simply been allowed to execute criminals back in the 1960's and 70's there would not have been the crime wave that there was. In a perfect world California would execute as many criminals as Texas does now and Texas would execute even more.

Hell, 16k people die by homicide every year in this country, there should be at least 8k executions every year to match, like in the People's Republic of China. We should even charge the killers family a bullet fee.

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